You might have seen this coming

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl storms onto the ARIA Albums Chart at #1, marking her 14th chart topper and bringing her total weeks at #1 to 69.

Taylor ranks #2 on the list of artists with the most #1 albums since the ARIA charts started in 1983. Jimmy Barnes is ahead of her, with 16 chart-toppers as a solo act (he has also hit the top six times with Cold Chisel). 

Only two of her studio or re-recorded albums have failed to reach the summit. Her debut, Taylor Swift, stopped at #33 in 2006 and Fearless stalled at #2 in 2008. Fearless (Taylor’s Version) did get to #1 in 2021. 

Taylor has now spent a grand total of 498 weeks in the Albums Chart’s top 10; Red was the longest stayer, with 95 weeks.  Her longest running #1 album was Midnights, which spent 16 weeks on top.

On the Singles Chart, Taylor sets a new chart record by capturing the entire top 12 with every track on the new album, led by The Fate Of Ophelia at #1. She came close to setting the record in October 2022, when she had 13 of the top 14. Tracks from her previous new album, The Tortured Poets Department, accounted for the entire top 10 in April last year.

The Fate Of Ophelia is her 13th chart-topper and first since Fortnight featuring Post Malone spent two weeks at the summit in April-May last year. It’s also her 54th top 10 single, stretching back to her first hit here, Love Story, which spent two weeks at #1 in 2009. 

The Life Of A Showgirl is also good news for Sabrina Carpenter, giving her a seventh top 10 hit, as her duet with Taylor on the title track debuts at #6. 

Taylor isn’t the only news this week. 

Aussie rock band The Rions lands at #5 with Everything Every Single Day. They reached #35 last year with the EP Happiness In A Place It Shouldn’t Be. 

Irish producer and DJ, Kettama, debuts at #10 with his first full-length album, Archangel. 

The Wiggles’ character The Tree of Wisdom scores his first chart ink as The Tree of Wisdom (featuring The Wiggles) debuts at #27. The Tree of Wisdom is played by Dominic Field, the son of The Wiggles’ managing director Paul Field and nephew of Anthony Field, the Blue Wiggle. 

And Terrigal’s own Boy Soda lands at #32 with their debut album Soulstar. 

As Australia gets ready for the Oasis tour in late October and early November, the band’s 1995 album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? shoots to #1 on the On Replay Albums Chart. It spent five weeks at #1 in 1996. 

The album’s return has been sparked by the release of a special deluxe version containing remastered classics as well as new unplugged versions of tracks, including Morning Glory, Acquiesce, Cast No Shadow, Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall.

Fresh from his performance at the NRL Grand Final last Sunday, Teddy Swims holds at #1 on the On Replay Singles Chart with Lose Control. He also at #3 with The Door.